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Crime
Wa public flogging: Police arrest 25 for rioting
“The irate mob pelted the charge office and adjoining offices with stones and other implements. The youth also set vehicle tires ablaze on some major streets in the Municipality.
DL News2 June 2022
Europe
‘You can overcome barriers’ – UK senior barrister, Nneka Akudolu
In the UK, barristers from ethnic minority backgrounds face systemic obstacles to building and progressing a career at the Bar, according to the Bar Council’s Race Working Group Report in 2021.
DL News22 April 2022
General
Ghana Armed Forces declares support for death penalty abolishment
Member of Parliament for the Madina Constituency, Hon. Francis Xavier Sosu in June 2021 introduced a private member’s bill for the removal of the death penalty from the Criminal and Other Offences Act, 1960 (Act 29).
DL News12 April 2022
General
Minister Mondli Gungubele: This is how hostage situation with the 56 military veterans unfolded
“At 19:15, police received reports of a hostage situation at St George’s Hotel
DL News14 October 2021
General
GBA moves forward to hold 28th Annual Conference
The conference promises to be informative and pragmatically innovative
DL News12 September 2021
General
Priest kissing students: Anglican Church showed leadership – Director of FIDA-International
In a statement sighted by JoyNews, Father Baltharzzar Obeng Larbi acknowledged wrongdoing by his action and rendered an apology to the girls involved, their families, the Anglican church, and the general public at large.
DL News23 August 2021
General
Desist from sharing identities of students kissed by Anglican Priest – Director of FIDA-International
If they do not consent to it, it is indecent assault,”
DL News22 August 2021
General
Watch comments you pass about children, they could be criminal – Legal practitioner advises
“It is up to us to make people aware that these things are criminal, the same way that somebody who goes to defile a child can be arrested, can be prosecuted, and possibly jailed for such acts, you can also go through the same process,” she...
DL News16 July 2021
General
Marital property agreements will be possible under Property Rights of Spouses Bill – Minkah-Premo
Chairperson of the Executive Council of LAWA-Ghana, Sheila Minkah-Premo says the Property Rights of Spouses Bill when passed would give spouses the right to come up with marital property agreements concerning the ownership and acquisition o...
DL News23 February 2021
General
UG School of Law impresses in first appearance at ICC Mediation Contest
The students, Lilyan Boamah, Senam King, Pomaa Oppong Bediako and Edward Adeabah, took part in the 21st edition of the ICC’s international commercial mediation contest and received an Award
DL News25 February 2026
General
Police, Parliament, Judiciary, ADB, fined GH₵5.6m for flouting RTI law
According to the findings, the Ghana Police Service has already paid GH₵450,357 in fines, while CHRAJ still owes GH₵30,000.
DL news29 September 2025
Africa
Nigeria replaces 35-year old arbitration legislation
The new act refreshes the Nigerian arbitration framework and brings it into line with modern arbitral standards
Africa Law& Business29 August 2023
Africa
Poor Kenyans likely to end up on death row - Study
Kenya's death penalty disproportionately affects people from low-income households, many of whom lack proper legal representation.
DW9 February 2023
General
Forced labour: Stakeholders call for stiffer sanctions, media focus
At a roundtable discussion held at an IJM-organised seminar on forced labour in Accra, calls were made by the various speakers for the sanction(fine) for convicted offenders to be heightened and a custodial sentence added
DL News15 December 2022
General
Thaddeus Sory, Nania Owusu-Ankomah Sackey, others, make interim committee of CIArb Ghana chapter
Members in Ghana by an application dated June 4, 2021, again expressed their interest in the formation of the Ghana branch, which was subsequently approved on September 24, 2021, by the Board of Trustees of the Chartered Institute of Arbitr...
DL News2 November 2022
Crime
Act 1019 has clearly stated the position on ‘possession’ and ‘use’ of Narcotic substances- Justice Sir Dennis Adjei
Speaking at a one-day training workshop on the New Narcotics Act for Judges, the Court of Appeal Justice further noted that the New Act primarily seeks to serve the interest of persons who even though may use or decide to use narcotic drugs...
DL News27 May 2022
General
No ‘aboboyaa’ on highways from Nov. 1
The Greater Accra Regional Minister, Mr Henry Quartey, who announced the directive at the launch of the Operation Clean Your Frontage in Accra last Friday, said, however, the ban on tricycles plying the Accra-Tema Motorway took immediate ef...
GRAPHICONLINE25 October 2021
General
Entertainment & the Law: Understanding Shatta Wale’s present headaches
On Tuesday, September 28, 2021, a Bishop sits in the studio of an Accra-based radio station, Accra FM and declares in Twi that “on October 18, 2021, a big calamity will befall Ghana.
DENNISLAW NEWS22 October 2021
Crime
Govt entreated to support poor, vulnerable facing prosecutions
Vagrancy laws criminalise the status of the poor and homeless, and not necessarily what they have done. These include loitering and hawking,”
DL News30 August 2021
General
“There is no human rights in homosexuality” – Hon. Francis Sosu writes
I am committed to fearless honesty and will continue to do my best for the people of Madina and Ghanaians as a whole. I believe when the dust settles, reason shall prevail over emotions.
DL News26 July 2021